Word: breathlessly
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...buses, with police motorcycle escorts, arrived carrying blacks from Dorchester and Roxbury. Once the students entered the building, passing through metal detectors that searched for concealed weapons, the school erupted with racial fighting. Reporters outside heard the sounds of breaking glass. "It's wild in there," one breathless teacher told them. "They're going crazy." Police finally herded blacks and whites into separate "holding rooms" off the lobby to keep them apart...
...printed words were never very good for background sound. Her music was properly lilting and soothing and all that, but the primary appeal was always her lyrics: the universal qualities of lover relationships she captured in her songs. As background, the words just tumbled over each other in the breathless peal of her voice, and wafted around with the warm air that's wasted at the tops of rooms...
...Night Caller is one of those French films made in envious and inadvertently silly imitation of American crime melodramas. Director Henri Verneuil (The Sicilian Clan) works hard to duplicate every cliche of the genre, from a car chase right down to a breathless pursuit up stairs that wind like a snail's shell...
LANG'S WRITING is uneven too. She produces poems impatiently, without turning around to locate and pare away the bland passages. Perhaps her negligence results from the attitude that "Poetry can never be much more than a commentary, At best a breathless summation, for what words, What words existed before their source...
Last Tango in Paris, 5:45, 9:35 Breathless, 8 p.m., tonight; Children of Paradise, 5:15, 8:30, starts tomorrow...